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Windy City Times: Queer-inclusive original play 'The Cleanup' set to debut
By Carrie Maxwell October 17, 2022 Playwright Hallie Palladino's The Cleanup focuses on four parents, one of whom is a gay father, as...

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Oct 16, 2022


WTTW "CHICAGO TONIGHT": Chicago Tonight and "Nostalgia for My Island"
By Marc Vitali September 27, 2022

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Sep 26, 2022


TELEMUNDO: Aniversario 40 del Festival de cine internacional LGBTQ
By José González September 24, 2022 La ciudad de Chicago celebra el 40 aniversario del festival de cine internacional LGBTQ+. El festival...

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Sep 23, 2022


WBEZ: Rediscovering Norm Bruns: A Chicago filmmaker whose work was almost forgotten
By Courtney Kueppers September 22, 2022 After his death at age 40, Bruns’s films weren’t shown for nearly three decades. They were...

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Sep 22, 2022


WGN-TV: "All Male: The International Male Story" To Show at Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ Festival
By Larry Potash and Robin Baumgarten September 22, 2022

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Sep 21, 2022


WGN-TV: Billy Ocasio discusses "Nostalgia for My Island" and relief efforts for Puerto Rico
By Tonya Francisco and Amy Rutledge September 21, 2022

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Sep 20, 2022


CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Puerto Rican museum's rarely seen artworks showcased in Chicago exhibit
By Kyle MacMillan September 16, 2022 Titled “Nostalgia for My Island: Puerto Rican Painting from the Museo de Arte de Ponce, 1786- 1962,”...

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Sep 15, 2022


SCREEN INTERNATIONAL: 'No Bears,' 'Saint Omer' among Chicago fest international selections
By Jeremy Kay September 16, 2022 Jafar Panahi’s No Bears, Alice Diop’s Saint Omer, and Sergei Loznitsa’s The Natural History Of...

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Sep 15, 2022


CHICAGO TRIBUNE: Kathryn (WandaVision) Hahn, 'Empire of Light,' and others at Chicago International
By Michael Phillips September 14, 2022 Starting with a Southport Avenue block party (food trucks!) for the Oct. 12 opening night, this...

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Sep 13, 2022


NBC-TV: "Kitties in Space" Beams Down to Chicago Today
Chicago Today, Cortney Hall and Matthew Rodrigues September 1, 2022 Otherworld Theatre Company's KITTIES IN SPACE visit the studio.

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Sep 1, 2022


CHICAGO TRIBUNE: After Natural Disasters Ravaged Puerto Rico's Most Vaunted Art Museum, a Chicago Mu
By Hannah Edgar August 4, 2022 National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture CEO Billy Ocasio is keenly aware that this September...

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Aug 4, 2022


WBBM NEWSRADIO: Outdoor Oak Park Festival Theatre returns after pandemic and fire
By Lisa Fielding July 11, 2022 OAK PARK (WBBM NEWSRADIO) — Things are abuzz in Austin Gardens as the Oak Park Festival Theatre returns...

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Jul 12, 2022


CHICAGO READER: Taking the Drama and Dance Outdoors
By Kerry Reid June 23, 2022 Now heading into their 47th season, Oak Park Festival Theatre has been producing Shakespeare (and sometimes...

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Jun 23, 2022


CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra set for first-ever Chicago concert
By Miriam DiNunzio June 22, 2022 The Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra will make its first-ever concert appearance in Chicago later this...

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Jun 22, 2022


DESIGN INTELLIGENCE: Rebuilding the Profession
By Mark Wight June 13, 2022 We’re talking with Mark Wight, the chairman and CEO of Wight & Company, an 80-year-old, Chicago-based...

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Jun 12, 2022


USA TODAY: 'Completely Different From High School': How Colleges Are Making Space for LGBTQ Students
By Chris Quintana June 5, 2022 Finnley Armacost had a heavy decision to make his first year at the University of California, San Diego:...

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Jun 4, 2022


BROADWAY WORLD: Enjoy Winter in Summer With Oak Park Festival Theatre's 'The Winter's Tale'
By A.A. Christi May 31, 2022 The Oak Park Festival Theatre today announced its summer show, William Shakespeare's THE WINTER'S TALE,...

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May 30, 2022


THE ADVOCATE: A Gay Oral Roberts University Graduate's Painful Story
By John Casey May 26, 2022 It always seemed that there was nothing worse than growing up a closeted gay Catholic. The religion treated...

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May 25, 2022


VARIETY: Abortion Activists Depicted in ‘The Janes’ Sound Alarm About Possible Roe v. Wade Overturn
By: Addie Morfoot, Variety May 20, 2022 Following Doc10 Film Festival’s opening night screening of “The Janes” on May 19, several...

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May 20, 2022


THE TRIIBE: ‘Let The Little Light Shine’ documentary follows the fight to save a public school
By: Tonia Hill May 20, 2022 Let The Little Light Shine, a documentary film that follows the fight to save National Teachers Academy...

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May 18, 2022
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